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Safety

The last few metres of the steep climb on to the summit plateau involve an easy scramble. CARE should be taken in wet or wintry conditions.

Pen-y-ghent’s profile

The steep rocky profile of Pen-y-ghent is caused by its geology. Layers of harder millstone grit cap bands of limestone and shales.

1 Turn R out of the car park and follow the road past the Pen-y-ghent Café and then the campsite. Cross the road just before the church and turn L on the public footpath. Turn L along the road and then immediately R over the footbridge signposted ‘Pen-y-ghent via Brackenbottom’. Turn L and run up the road, past the old primary school, out of the village to a farm 1.3km.

2 Turn L before the farm, signposted ‘Pen-y-ghent Summit’. Follow the well-worn footpath alongside the wall as it climbs steeply up through the fields. The gradient lessens and the route becomes a series of flat terraces interspersed with small limestone steps. Continue ahead for a couple of kilometres, heading for the foot of Pen-y-ghent summit (south side). The final part of this section rises steeply up flagged stone steps to meet the Pennine Way 3.6km.